by Marybeth Gasman, Ph.d All you have to do is spend a few minutes on social media and it becomes very obvious we have a hard time talking with each other when we disagree, especially during these volatile times. In our conversations, we often fail to listen to the nuance in arguments, we jump to…
An Exploration of Material Culture: A Case Study of Tranby National Indigenous Adult Education & Training
The following is an excerpt from the collection of critical essays from The Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice by Le’Passion Darby, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign February 9, 2020. After a fifteen-hour outbound flight from Chicago, I had finally landed in Sydney, Australia. My objective? To observe, photograph, and record material culture…
Cohabitation rates, rights, and responsibilities
Relationship formation becomes more varied across the globe (Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, (lived) together as the first unmarried couple in No 10. Downing Street. But while cohabitation is celebrated in some parts of the world, it is not in many other parts. A Zimbabwean woman…
Seven extreme accounts dominate X, formerly known as Twitter
What we found was extraordinary. A small group of seven accounts, many unknown a year ago, were racking up hundreds of millions of views each day, out-performing standard news accounts by an order of magnitude and exercising significant influence on the discourse around the war. X’s owner, Elon Musk, had interacted with or explicitly recommended…
Trolling and doxxing: Graduate students sharing their research online speak out about hate
An increasingly volatile online environment is affecting our society, including members of the academic community and research they pursue. Graduate students are especially vulnerable to online hate, because cultivating a visible social media presence is considered essential for mobilizing their research, gaining credibility and finding opportunities as they prepare to compete in an over-saturated job market. Our research has examined the…
A debate brews among Black Ivy League students over representation on campus
Michaela Glavin did not feel a sense of belonging in the Black community when she arrived as a freshman at Harvard. The Black student body was warm and welcoming, but as a multigenerational African American — a descendant of enslaved Africans brought to the U.S. — she said she felt like “a minority within a…
Hip Hop: A Culture of Vision and Voice
Hip hop is global, lapping on every shore and landing at every airport. But what does hip hop mean? Is it the music with a chest-thumping beat? The rapid-fire lyrics rapped into a handheld mic? Gravity-defying dance steps? Writers turning walls into canvases with larger-than-life letters and illustrations? The answer is all of the above—and more. Hip hop…
Man sentenced for federal hate crimes against Idaho LGBTQ+ community
Matthew Lehigh was first arrested in October 2022 after Boise police received reports of him yelling threats, homophobic slurs BY: MIA MALDONADO – NOVEMBER 2, 2023 In the Idaho capitol sun PHOTO: Shows pride flags on display throughout the North End neighborhood in Boise. (Mia Maldonado / Idaho Capital Sun) Warning: This story includes descriptions of threats and…
The scapegoating of Asian Americans
“The important thing to remember is that this is really not an exceptional moment by any means,” said Sato. “But it’s really part of a much longer genealogy of anti-Asian violence that reaches as far back as the 19th century.” Sato pointed to the Chinese massacre of 1871, when a mob in Los Angeles’ Chinatown…
An urgent need exists to investigate the cross-cultural differences in technology privacy attitudes and behaviors
While privacy regulation exists in almost every culture, the specific behavioral and psychological mechanisms that people use to regulate privacy boundaries are culturally unique. Since the 1960s, when privacy mostly concerned physical access to an individual’s surroundings and private space, researchers had found that people in different cultures are universally aware and capable of regulating…
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